I'm in Wuha, and the whole internet is shipping me and Song Yuqi as a couple.

It was exactly six o'clock in the morning.

In the master bedroom of the sea-view villa, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Song Yuqi groggily turned over and reached for the alarm clock on the bedside table, but her wrist bumped directly into a warm embrace.

Her eyelashes trembled, and she suddenly opened her eyes.

Jiang Che rested one hand behind his head, turning to look at her, his eyes showing the languidness of someone just waking up.

Song Yuqi's cheeks flushed instantly, and she quickly withdrew her hand, pulling the blanket up to cover the lower half of her face.

"Why...did you wake up so early?"

Jiang Che raised his other hand and pinched her slightly upturned tuft of hair as she slept.

"I saw someone snoring while sleeping."

Song Yuqi kicked him under the covers.

"Nonsense, I don't snore."

As the two were arguing, a bloodcurdling scream, like a pig being slaughtered, suddenly came from the next room.

"Wu Zheng! Have some decency!"

Chen He's voice came through two walls, making the door frame tremble slightly.

Song Yuqi sat up in bed and blinked.

"What's wrong?"

Jiang Che threw off the covers and got out of bed, casually tossing her the coat hanging on the back of the chair.

"Let's go take a look."

As soon as the two stepped out of the room, they saw Deng Chao standing in the corridor with a messy, unkempt hairstyle and a toothbrush in his hand.

Chen He rushed out of the bathroom wearing a bathrobe, his hair still covered in a clump of shampoo foam that hadn't been rinsed off.

"Where's the water? Where's my hot water?"

Chen He pointed at the bathroom faucet, on the verge of exploding.

"I had just applied shampoo to my hair when, suddenly, the water stopped!"

Deng Chao wiped the dried toothpaste foam from the corner of his mouth.

"Not only hot water, but cold water has also been cut off. I don't even have mouthwash now."

Lu Han yawned as she strolled out of another room, holding an empty mineral water bottle in her hand.

"Stop looking, the bottled water in the water dispenser was emptied by the logistics team last night."

Song Yuqi ran to the kitchen, turned on the tap, and only heard a few empty sounds.

"The production team is too much! They won't even provide basic toiletries?"

Jiang Che walked to the bar counter, bent down and opened the bottom locker.

He pulled out two unopened large bottles of purified water that he had left over from his beachcombing trip the night before.

When Chen He saw the two buckets of water, his eyes lit up, and he almost pounced on them.

"Brother Che! My dear brother! Save my life!"

Jiang Che handed one of the buckets to Deng Chao and Chen He.

"Use this to wash your hair and rinse your mouth; use it sparingly."

Chen He was so moved that he clasped his hands together and bowed repeatedly.

"I'll give the largest share of your wedding banquet from now on, and I'll definitely sit in the first row at the head table!"

Song Yuqi, who was holding another bucket of water, blushed slightly upon hearing this and muttered something under her breath.

"Who's planning a wedding banquet? It's still far from happening."

Jiang Che turned his head to look at her and curled the corners of his mouth into a smile.

"You've got one stroke of the character 'eight' (八), the rest depends on your performance."

The live stream chat exploded with comments in the early morning.

[They're already handing out sweets first thing this morning! I'll move the Civil Affairs Bureau over here for you!]

Chen He looked so pitiful with foam on his head, but Jiang Che was incredibly quick to protect his wife.

[Haha, Chen He, you're sitting at the head table at the wedding banquet, you really know how to navigate social situations.]

Before Chen He could even rinse his hair, the loudspeaker above the living room blared with a crackling sound.

Wu Zheng's smug voice echoed throughout the villa.

Good morning, everyone.

"I'm sure everyone has already felt the refreshing feeling of a morning on the island."

Deng Chao raised his toothbrush towards the loudspeaker.

"Wu Zheng, cutting off the water so early in the morning, you call this refreshing? You're robbing people of their lives!"

Wu Zheng completely ignored the protests and announced the rules on his own.

"To give everyone more energy, breakfast is unlimited today!"

"Seafood congee, soup dumplings, freshly baked croissants, and hot milk—all at Xidao Central Forest Park!"

Chen He walked out, drying his wet hair, and swallowed hard when he heard the menu.

"Free food?"

Wu Zheng's smile on the radio was particularly sinister.

"Of course it's not free."

Today's theme is—West Island Battle Royale!

"Five breakfast stations have been set up in the forest park, each guarded by an agile man in black."

"You need to enter the forest park, steal the key from the man in black, and open the insulated box to get your breakfast."

"Note: If your name tag is hit by the water gun on the back of the man in black, you will be eliminated instantly and lose 500 points!"

"We'll get fined if we get hit? Can't we just not go then?"

Wu Zheng immediately blocked their escape route.

"Those who do not participate will have 1,000 yuan deducted from their account as a penalty, and no supplies will be provided for the entire day."

Deng Chao threw the towel onto the sofa.

This is practically forced buying and selling!

Lu Han analyzed the situation.

"Five people, five strongholds. If we split up, we'll be easily picked off one by one by the men in black."

Chen He moved closer to Jiang Che and frantically gave him meaningful glances.

"Brother Che, what do you think we should do about this? They must have hired some athletes or retired bodyguards again."

Jiang Che straightened the cuffs of his tracksuit.

"Don't worry, the rules say that you're eliminated if you hit the name tag on the back."

Song Yuqi looked up at him.

"Do you have a solution?"

Jiang Che reached out and rubbed her cheek.

"Stay close to me, and stick your name tag to my chest."

Song Yuqi was stunned for a moment.

"Put it on your chest? What about your name tag?"

"Also, stick it to your chest."

Jiang Che's words were concise and to the point.

"As long as we face the enemy head-on, they won't be able to hit us with a single shot."

Deng Chao slapped his thigh.

"Incredible! The rules only state that being hit by a name tag results in elimination, but they don't specify that the name tag must be on the back!"

Chen He immediately tore his name tag off from behind and slapped it onto his stomach.

"Let's go! To the forest park to buy supplies!"

Twenty minutes later, the five people arrived at the entrance of Xidao Central Forest Park by sightseeing bus.

The surrounding trees are lush and the dense bushes cut the sunlight into dappled shadows.

There was a wooden sign at the entrance with a simple map drawn on it.

Deng Chao pointed to the markings on the map.

"Outpost One is on the suspension bridge, Outpost Two is in the maze, Outpost Three is on the water slide, and Outposts Four and Five are in the innermost watchtower."

Song Yuqi pointed to numbers four and five.

"Since these two outposts are the closest to each other, the breakfasts in the insulated boxes must be the most plentiful."

Jiang Che nodded.

"We went straight to the watchtower."

Chen He quickly raised his hand.

"Chao and I went to Outpost One to scavenge for loot. We split up and signaled to each other when we got what we needed."

The group quickly divided up their routes and ventured into the dense forest path.

Jiang Che led Song Yuqi by the hand, while Lu Han alertly followed behind, keeping an eye on their surroundings.

The sea breeze rustled through the trees.

Song Yuqi stepped on the withered branches on the ground, following Jiang Che's rhythm with small steps.

"Jiang Che, what if the men in black are lying in ambush?"

Jiang Che stopped and turned around to look at her somewhat nervous expression.

He raised his hand and tucked the stray hairs that had fallen onto her cheek behind her ear, his fingers brushing against the tip of her ear.

"With me here, no one can touch you."

Song Yuqi's heart skipped a beat, and she smiled, pursing her lips.

"Understood, Chief Bodyguard."

Before he could finish speaking, the bushes in front of him suddenly began to shake violently.

Two burly men dressed in all-black combat suits and wearing sunglasses suddenly jumped out.

The two men each held a large pressurized water gun, pointing it directly at the three of them.

"Stop right there! Hand over your name tag!"

Without saying a word, the man in black raised his hand and pulled the trigger.

A jet of water shot straight toward Song Yuqi with a whooshing sound.

Jiang Che swayed and instantly stood in front of Song Yuqi, pulling her into his arms with his left hand and turning to avoid the waterline.

The jet of water grazed his arm and hit the tree trunk behind him, splashing up a spray of water.

The man in black was stunned for a moment, clearly not expecting Jiang Che to react so quickly.

Another man in black circled around behind Jiang Che, trying to find the name tag on his back.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered that Jiang Che's back was completely bare, except for a clean, quick-drying shirt.

The man in black was stunned, standing there holding the water gun.

"Where are the name tags? Where did you put them?"

Jiang Che pointed to the two name tags pasted side by side on his chest.

One card read "Jiang Che," and the other read "Song Yuqi."

"Here, come at me head-on if you dare."

The man in black's lips twitched, and he picked up the water gun and shot it at Jiang Che's chest.

Jiang Che didn't retreat at all. He pushed off with his feet and slid forward into the water.

He quickly ducked half a second before the water jet hit his chest, reached out with his right arm, grabbed the man in black's wrist, and pressed him down.

The water gun slipped from my hand.

Jiang Che snatched the water gun from the man in black and pulled the golden key from his waist.

The movements were fluid and fast, almost dazzling.

Seeing this, another man in black tried to run away, but Lu Han grabbed a tree branch from the side and pinned it precisely to the man's feet.

The man in black stumbled, and Song Yuqi, quick as a flash, pounced and snatched the second key from his waist.

"Got it!"

Song Yuqi held the key high and happily jumped up and down twice.

Jiang Che tossed the water gun he had snatched to Lu Han, then reached out and caught Song Yuqi, who jumped over, and steadily supported her waist.

"Impressive, Accountant Song."

Song Yuqi raised her chin, her face full of smugness.

"That's right, I'm not one to be trifled with either."

In the monitoring room, Wu Zheng sprayed a mouthful of tea all over the screen.

"Name tags pinned to her chest? And she tried to steal a water gun?"

He pointed at Jiang Che on the screen, slamming his fist on the table in anger.

"This is a survival game, and he's treating it like a special forces raid!"

The assistant director, wiping the tea stains off the screen, spoke up timidly.

"Director Wu, the two strongholds of the watchtower... have been taken down by them."

Deep in the woods, Jiang Che used a key to open insulated boxes number four and five.

Inside, four large boxes of steaming hot crab roe soup dumplings, two thick-cut beef sandwiches, and warm fresh milk were neatly arranged.

Song Yuqi picked up a soup dumpling, carefully took a small bite, blew on it to cool it down, and then offered it directly to Jiang Che's mouth.

"Try it, it's incredibly fresh!"

Jiang Che took a big bite from her hand, and the hot, rich broth spread in his mouth.

"Sweet."

Song Yuqi withdrew her hand and looked at the soup dumpling in her hand with a puzzled expression.

"It's supposed to be savory, so how can it be sweet?"

Jiang Che looked into her eyes and spoke meaningfully.

"What you feed me is sweet."

Song Yuqi's cheeks instantly turned red, and she hurriedly stuffed the remaining buns into her mouth, her cheeks bulging out.

Lu Han silently took a bite of her beef sandwich and looked up at the sky.

"I shouldn't be here, I should be under the car."

Suddenly, the desperate cries for help from Deng Chao and Chen He came from afar.

"Help! Brother Che! There are three men in black chasing us!"

Chen He, with his large belly adorned with name tags, tumbled and crawled down the hillside, while Deng Chao pushed him from behind.

Three men in black, armed with pressurized water guns, were hot on their heels.

Jiang Che handed the fresh milk in his hand to Song Yuqi and took the large water gun he had snatched from Lu Han.

He loaded the water gun with one hand and strode towards the pursuers.

"Yuqi, put away the breakfast."

Song Yuqi, clutching the insulated food container, shouted at his retreating figure.

"Jiang Che, beat them hard! Avenge Brother Chao and the others!"

Jiang Che didn't turn his head, but raised his hand and gave an OK sign.